Not my photo. I couldn't take photos when I was in this room... May 2010 on the Warner Bros Studio backlot in Burbank, California. I was on a private tour and lucky to step into places tourists never get to see. The Eastwood Scoring Stage, originally built in 1929 and renamed for Clint Eastwood in 1999, has seen the recording of musical scores for such films as Casablanca , The Wild Bunch and Back to the Future . My guide had to step away to take a phone call and I was left on the stage to take in its history. I chatted briefly to a technician who was setting up for the next recording session. “What are you setting up for?” I asked. “Michael Giacchino is coming in tomorrow to score the final episode of Lost .” Giacchino had won the Oscar that year for his work on the Pixar film, Up . And he was about the record the music for the highly-anticipated final episode of a television phenomenon. “Are you a VIP?” the tech asked me. “No,” I said. “I mak
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